Getting Your Emotional Wings

We have probably all experienced receiving an emotional blow, the kind of experience that leaves you reeling. What if those emotional “hits” didn’t have to have such a deep and lasting effect on us? What if there was a way to pick ourselves up quickly and soar back to our good-feeling place?

There is!

Getting the feeling of how to rise up when you have been placed in a negative situation is a priceless skill. Use this poem to help you find your way to knowing how to do this.

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“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight rests on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”

Poem by Victor Hugo

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To begin, read the poem fully. Then imagine yourself as the bird, sitting peacefully on a branch, high in a tree. All of a sudden, you hear a “CRACK” and you feel the limb upon which you sit start to give way. You know the feeling of falling and you know you are about to experience that downward pull of gravity taking over.

But then, in the split second before the branch starts to fall, you remember that you have wings! You raise your wings into the air beside you. You push off of the barely-hanging-on branch, which effectively completes its break from the trunk and starts the branch on its journey to the ground. And you flap, flap, flap your wings, rising certainly away from the tree, higher and higher into the sky. You breathe a deep, peaceful sigh as you think, I am always free. I can fly.

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“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight rests on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”

Poem by Victor Hugo

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Use this tool as often as needed, until you are able to initiate lift-off whenever you think about it, and then you will have this tool at-the-ready when the next emotional “hit” arrives.